Fiction & Nonfiction for Young Adults

FICTION

 

Unbecoming - Jenny Downham
Life has just become very complicated for seventeen-year-old Katie; her father walked out a year ago, her mother is stressed out, her brother is a "special needs" teenager, and she is caring for the maternal grandmother she has never met, who is suffering from Alzheimer's--and Katie has a secret of her own that she cannot reveal.


Titans - Victoria Scott
Seventeen-year-old Astrid Sullivan belongs to a family of compulsive gamblers, and now that her father has been laid off from his job in Detroit and lost all their money betting on the Titans, which are half-horse, half car, and race around impossible tracks, her family is falling apart--but when Astrid's new friends give her the chance to participate in this year's Titan races, she thinks she sees a way to win some money and keep her family together.

NONFICTION
A Wicked History Series:

Hannibal: Rome's Worst Nightmare - Philip Brooks
Includes bibliographical references and index. Presents the history of Hannibal, a famous Carthaginian military commander who invaded Italy by crossing the Alps with war elephants, and won many battles against Rome over a decade before being defeated in the Battle of Zama at Carthage.

Ivan the Terrible: Tsar of Death - Sean Price
A biography of Russia's first tsar Ivan the Terrible that describes his life, cruelty, and victims.